Naked Santa causes stir

A Texas homeowner who adorned his front lawn with Michelangelo's David as a scantily clad Santa got more than just laughs from his neighbours.

Barry McBee says he was aiming to make people chuckle by adding a Santa hat and white beard to the 1.5m-tall replica of the Renaissance statue.

Then, parents started calling Big Spring city officials saying their children were asking why Santa was naked.

Last week, code enforcement officials went to photograph where McBee had placed the statue.

The sculpture did not violate any town ordinances, and the copy of one of the world's most well-known statues did not involve any obscenity issues, said Linda Sjogren, city lawyer in Big Spring.

Sjogren requested that McBee put more clothes on David.

McBee relented, putting a pair of black and white faux-velvet shorts, with a Christmas bow, on the statue.